﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  BEFISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCUDDEB. 
  235 
  

  

  55. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  WALSHII, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  XV, 
  fig. 
  10.) 
  

  

  Pezotettix 
  sciidderl 
  Walsh 
  ! 
  , 
  MS. 
  

  

  Kather 
  above 
  the 
  medium 
  size, 
  cinereo-fnscous. 
  Head 
  not 
  promi- 
  

   nent, 
  dull 
  testaceous, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  infuscated, 
  especially 
  above, 
  with 
  a 
  

   distinct 
  or 
  obsolete 
  piceous 
  postocular 
  band; 
  vertex 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  

   feebly 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  

   almost 
  (male) 
  or 
  much 
  more 
  tliau 
  (female) 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  first 
  

   aiiteiinal 
  joint; 
  fiistigium 
  steeply 
  declivent, 
  broadly 
  and 
  moderately 
  

   (male) 
  or 
  very 
  shallowly 
  (female) 
  sulcate; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  hardly 
  reaching 
  

   the 
  clypeus, 
  equal, 
  a 
  little 
  (male) 
  or 
  distinctly 
  (female) 
  narrower 
  than 
  

   the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  faintly 
  and 
  broadly 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  

   below 
  tlie 
  ocellus, 
  punctate 
  throughout, 
  but 
  above 
  particularly 
  in 
  lat- 
  

   eral 
  series; 
  eyes 
  not 
  very 
  large, 
  moderately 
  prominent, 
  particularly 
  in 
  

   the 
  male, 
  the 
  front 
  margin 
  truncate 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  a 
  little 
  (female) 
  or 
  

   distinctly 
  (male) 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  intraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  

   antennae 
  testaceous, 
  basally 
  lutescent, 
  apically 
  fuscescent, 
  slightly 
  

   moie 
  than 
  two-thirds 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora 
  in 
  the 
  female. 
  Pro- 
  

   notum 
  equal 
  except 
  for 
  a 
  feeble 
  posterior 
  enlargement 
  of 
  the 
  metazona, 
  

   the 
  sides 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  broad 
  piceous 
  postocular 
  band 
  crossing 
  the 
  pro- 
  

   zona 
  and, 
  obscurely, 
  also 
  the 
  metazona 
  (male) 
  or 
  with 
  scarc«^ly 
  the 
  

   slightest 
  trace 
  of 
  the 
  same, 
  but 
  at 
  most 
  a 
  growing 
  depth 
  of 
  tint 
  at 
  the 
  

   upper 
  limit 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  (female), 
  the 
  disk 
  plano-convex, 
  passing 
  

   into 
  the 
  subvertical 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  by 
  a 
  well 
  but 
  abrui)tly 
  rounded 
  angu- 
  

   lation, 
  forming 
  dull 
  lateral 
  carinae; 
  mediancarinadistinct 
  but 
  lowon 
  the 
  

   metazona, 
  obsolete 
  on 
  the 
  prozona 
  except 
  sometimes 
  a 
  slight 
  api)ear- 
  

   ance 
  at 
  extreme 
  front; 
  front 
  margin 
  truncate, 
  hind 
  margin 
  strongly 
  

   obtusaugulate; 
  prozona 
  distinctly 
  longitudinal 
  (male) 
  or 
  quadrate 
  or 
  

   snlxiuadrate 
  (female), 
  much 
  longer 
  than, 
  generally 
  half 
  or 
  nearly 
  half 
  

   as 
  long 
  again 
  as, 
  the 
  ruguloso-punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  

   moderately 
  long 
  and 
  stout, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  appressed 
  conical, 
  

   not 
  very 
  blunt, 
  erect; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  truucato- 
  

   cuneiform, 
  quadrate 
  (male) 
  or 
  distinctly 
  transverse 
  but 
  narrower 
  than 
  

   the 
  lobes 
  (female). 
  Tegmina 
  abbreviate, 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  i)rc- 
  

   notum, 
  overlapping, 
  with 
  angularly 
  separated 
  dorsal 
  and 
  lateral 
  fields, 
  

   ])articu]arly 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  ovate 
  lan(;eolate, 
  apically 
  bluntly 
  acuminate, 
  

   the 
  costal 
  margin 
  rotundato-anguhite, 
  cinereo 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  dorsal 
  field 
  

   often 
  wholly 
  cinereous; 
  wings 
  briefer 
  than 
  the 
  tegmina. 
  Fore 
  and 
  

   middle 
  femora 
  not 
  greatly 
  tumid 
  in 
  tlie 
  male; 
  hind 
  femora 
  testaceous 
  

   or 
  luteo-testaceous, 
  rather 
  broadly 
  and 
  distinctly 
  bifasciate 
  with 
  fus- 
  

   cous 
  or 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  sometimes 
  suffused 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  face, 
  the 
  

   inferior 
  face 
  pale 
  reddish, 
  the 
  genicular 
  arc 
  black; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  bright 
  

   red. 
  at 
  extreme 
  base 
  infuscated, 
  witli 
  a 
  fuscous 
  patellar 
  spot, 
  followed 
  

   beyond 
  by 
  a 
  broad 
  but 
  not 
  very 
  conspicuous 
  jiallid 
  aniiulus, 
  the 
  spines 
  

  

  